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BMWs turbo V8 had lots of problems.
Whose idea was it to put a heat bomb in the Vee of the V8?
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Yep. Anything plastic or rubber in or on the engine eventually gets hard and cracks. But, they're amazingly powerful and fuel efficient engines... and sort of a jobs program for BMW mechanics.
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Best ownership experience for the N55 is to get rid of it by no later than 150k if you make it that far.
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I had mibe for about 20k. Amazing car to drive, N55 was a fantastic engine but dumped it when the warranty was up.
Meticulously maintained, and throwing VANOS codes at 50k. Not to mention a full i drive failure that took 4-5 weeks for the shop to repair. I shudder to think how much it would have cost. Other BMWs I have driven or ridden in are pretty meh on the inside. If that M135 wasnt so damn fun to drive i doubt id have even bought it. I replaced it with the saturn, which is an absolute blast.
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And safer.
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Same company, different customers.
Using Sam's Club requires somebody to have a plan for bulk buying and storage, and have the ability to come up with money or credit for bulk buying and the annual membership fee. My top four items from Sam's Club are: canned cat food (60 5.5 oz. cans/box), cat treats (3 one-pound bags/box), lightweight cat litter (19.5 lb. box), and spring water (40 0.5l bottles/case and six one-gallon bottles/box). I'm hooked on their dark chocolate, almonds, and sea salt "thins." (broken up sheets of candy). https://www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-dark-chocolate-thins-almonds-sea-salt-20oz/prod23030856?pid=_Aff_LS&siteID=msYS1Nvjv4c-WwbHWR6iVBRfJXPkBQVgMQ&ranMID=38733&ranEAID=msYS1Nvjv4c&ranSiteID=msYS1Nvjv4c-WwbHWR6iVBRfJXPkBQVgMQ&pubNAME=Bing+Rebates+-+Core We call it "Crystal Brown Persuasion," a play on the AMC cable TV series "Breaking Bad." https://youtu.be/YsO3MMJNHZQ NW Floriduh has awesome spring water. When I go on road trips, I take a case of local water with me. It's better than what's locally available in TX, TN, NC, VA, etc. White people settled in Bubba County because of the springs, despite the poisonous snake infestation and lousy soil, on their way back to the east coast from New Orleans after the War of 1812.. The cheapest spring water available is from Sam's Club. The supply gets disrupted and diverted during natural disasters. So, my "inventory minimum and maximum objectives" are six to twelve cases. Six cases fit in the back of an X3, X5, or X7. We go through about two 20-liter cases per week. Luckily, I was close to twelve cases on hand when the hurricane flattened half of Bubba County in 2018, and at the start of the 2020 lockdown-smackdown. Humping that water to and around our current house is a PIA. I designed our next house with a short SUV-case storage area-bottle storage area-refrigerator path, with the pantry having a door opening out to the driveway going down the side of the house, and pantry-kitchen pass-thru shelves between the pantry and kitchen. I'll slide a case onto the pass-thru shelves and then cut the shrink wrap off. ... Lean Six Sigma! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Six_Sigma Most of our ~75 cubic feet/year of compacted recycled #1 and #2 plastic is spring water bottles. The pantry floor will be 19.5" lower than the kitchen floor. The empty bottles will go into a laundry basket sitting below the pass-thru shelves. The top of the basket will be at about the same level as the kitchen floor. I'll toss the empty bottles in the basket from the kitchen. ... more Lean Six Sigma. Walmart Corporation is the fourth largest employer in Bubba County after: DoD, the Bubba School District, and the Catholic Medical Center. Last edited by Autoputzer; 07-01-2021 at 03:23 AM. |
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We use Brita in the house.
Tastes great. Less filling. Hell of a lot lighter to lug around. Environmentally friendly compared to bottles of Poland Spring, which tastes better than that florider crap.
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We use an RO I installed when we moved here.
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I used to go to sea for two weeks at a time. I'd take a case of water with me. But, it was done in a couple of days. The ship made water from RO and it was pretty good.
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